Charla Aldous
About Charla Aldous
Charla G. Aldous founded the firm in 2000 after spending the early part of her career defending businesses and insurance companies. She made a deliberate choice to represent plaintiffs so she could know her clients personally and believe in their cause. Over more than three decades of practice, she has tried more than 200 jury trials and developed a reputation for courtroom advocacy in cases involving birth injury, medical malpractice, product liability, sexual assault, and wrongful death. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the International Society of Barristers. She has been named Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America eleven times, ranked among the Top 3 attorneys statewide by Texas Super Lawyers, and listed among the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers. Forbes named her the best-in-state personal injury attorney in Texas for 2025. The Dallas Bar Association honored her as a Living Legend, and the Texas Trial Lawyers Association presented her its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Notable case results
A Dallas County jury returned one of the largest medical-malpractice verdicts in the country after a teenager with cerebral palsy died at Medical City Dallas when hospital staff administered multiple times the appropriate dose of the anesthetic propofol following a routine airway procedure.
A Dallas jury awarded $71.95 million to the widow and four children of electrician Hernan Murillo, killed at an Irving Frito-Lay warehouse in 2019 when a boom lift struck his elevated scissor lift.
A Dallas jury awarded $37.6 million in February 2019 to Sarah Milburn, left quadriplegic after a 2015 Uber crash, after finding Honda's two-part third-row seat belt design so counterintuitive that fewer than one in ten unfamiliar users could operate it correctly; the Texas Supreme Court reversed the judgment in 2024 on statutory presumption grounds.
A Denton County jury awarded $32 million in February 2019 to a woman who was sexually assaulted at age 14 after two Hebron High School football players spiked her drink at a 2012 party, neither of whom had ever faced criminal charges.
Barbara Dalby, an Odessa proposal specialist and mother of three, secured a $30 million settlement against Hunt Oil after one of the company's intoxicated employees struck her head-on in 2019, leaving her with permanent spinal injuries and unable to work.
A Dallas County jury awarded $25 million to the mother of Jerry Brown Jr., a Dallas Cowboys practice-squad player killed when his teammate Josh Brent drove drunk at more than twice the legal limit, after finding that Beamers nightclub had over-served Brent alcohol before the fatal crash.
A Dallas County jury returned a $21 million verdict for the family of Carlos David Castro Rojas, a young man who suffered permanent, severe brain damage during what should have been a routine leg surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in 2017.
A Dallas County jury found Episcopal School of Dallas grossly negligent and awarded $9.3 million after the school forced out a 16-year-old student who had been sexually abused by her history teacher, rather than protecting her.
Wrongful death of electrician killed in scissor lift collapse at Irving Frito-Lay factory (Lopez v. Walker Engineering)
Wrongful death and paralysis case
Seat belt defect causing quadriplegia
T-bone wreck causing paralysis
Dram shop landmark case
Failure to monitor leading to brain injury
Man killed by Greyhound bus
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
